You have direct access to a primary care provider through your Health Access Benefit. Your provider can help you manage ongoing health conditions, prescribe medication, send orders for labs and imaging, and much more. Go to your primary care provider for your routine medical needs.
Having a primary care provider is the key to your total health solution. Not only will your primary care provider keep you and your family healthier, but they will save you money on health care costs over time.
Selecting a Primary Care Provider
When you are ready to begin using a primary care provider, you have several options, all of which are included in your Health Access Benefit.
First, your plan may include a primary care provider that your employer selected for you. If so, you will find their information included in your digital membership packet.
Second, your plan may be part of our Any DPC program, which means you can select any direct primary care provider you would like and submit the bill each month to be reimbursed just like with your preventive care services. A direct primary care provider delivers services offered by physicians and nurse practitioners with a simple flat fee membership. You can find out if your plan is part of the Any DPC program and see your maximum allowable amount in your digital membership packet.
Last, everyone can keep their existing primary care provider, even if they are not a direct primary care provider, with no network limits. You can see any provider you would like and get reimbursed for multiple Annual Wellness visits per year. You can find your maximum allowable amounts in your digital membership packet.
How Do I Begin Using My Primary Care Provider?
If you are choosing a new direct primary care provider, you’ll begin by scheduling an initial patient consultation with them at your earliest convenience. Once you've had your initial patient consultation, your primary care provider will be able to help you manage your routine medical needs, such as writing prescriptions and ordering lab work. Learn more about getting established with a DPC here.
Primary Care Keeps You Healthy
People who maintain a relationship with their primary care provider are healthier overall. Your primary care provider will help you avoid preventable illnesses and health complications, which can lead to these better health outcomes for you and your family.
Data shows that those who utilize primary care are better off in many ways, such as:
- Living longer and are less likely to die prematurely
- Spending less time in hospitals
- Visiting the emergency room less often
- Using ambulance services less often
- Requiring fewer surgeries
Primary Care Saves You Money
Primary care providers help patients avoid the really expensive health care costs of hospital stays, ambulance services, and emergency room visits. That means those with a primary care provider save more money on their health care than those without primary care. One study showed savings could be as much as 33% per year!
As a Health Access Benefit member, you can begin seeing your primary care provider whenever you are ready and start enjoying better health at lower costs.